Quote:I can deal with the subsonic speeds. What's the vibe on the idea of 'sensors?'The more you load into the knife, the bigger and heavier it gets.
I pictured Safety as being the smallest possible container for a grav-drive, a sensor package, and a full AI that can communicate with the outside world, and she's a 1/12 scale human. But that was my idea, not something decided by the Collective. One could say it's possible to get a smaller package without the full-AI and the humaniform hardware and software, or one could say it was only possible to get something that small because the handwavium copied the existing fictional prototype.
(And since I mentioned Raising Heart in an earlier post... IMHO, there's no way a Nanoha-style Intelligent Device can be built in Fenspace to be as small as the ones in the anime. The AI, the holo-forcefield generator (to "create" the larger form of the device), the power supply, and the ranged weaponry (Edit: and the speed drive, to provide the owner's flight capability), as a package, would have to be made of something smaller than nanotech to fit in a gem, badge, or pendant. And there's no picotech described in the Scott Archive. A PalmPilot/iPhone/TV remote might be large enough to hold a Fenspace Intelligent Device, but I doubt it...)
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Rob Kelk
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